the vast mayority of users will be happy with a more secure system and
will like accept a 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1% slowdown in case it is slow..
Sure, if only we knew that's not 10% slowdown.
I sometimes wonder what it is real target of PHP, the masses or a
selected neglible group of users that requires extreme craze
performance..
Who is "the masses"? Almost everybody I know isn't the masses and is concerned about performance in production. And performance hits are cumulative - ignore 1% performance hit 10 times and you have 10% at least...
maybe I can check that tomorrow.. but you can also run it by yourself :P
I can. Independent verification could be useful though.
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Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer
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